运输硕士的可持续性

如果您热衷于解决当今时代的巨大运输挑战–带来气候变化，污染，城市拥堵，交通运输，经济增长发展，宜居城市，社会正义和能源匮乏的好处–那么我们的运输可持续性硕士会激励和装备您解决这些问题。无论您有什么背景，本课程都会激发您的想象力并扩大您的视野。您可能是对环境和社会问题感兴趣的社会或政治科学家，地理学家，哲学家或法学毕业生，或工程或科学毕业生。最重要的是，您要善于批判性思考，并愿意搬出纪律舒适区。您将：研究一系列模块，从塑造未来的运输系统，环境科学，可持续运输以及环境政策和治理，到调查运输与气候变化，环境与经
Our Sustainability in Transport MSc will equip you with the technical and professional skills needed to help solve some of the grand challenges of sustainable transport. Taught by researchers at the forefront of the subject, you’ll look at how we can respond to the critical need for fast transport decarbonisation, along with ways to tackle urban pollution and enable social equity and inclusion in mobility. The course also examines the relationships between sustainable transport and economic development, liveable cities, social justice and energy scarcity. Whatever your background, this Masters degree will ignite your imagination and expand your horizons. You could be a social or political scientist, a geographer, philosopher, law graduate, engineering graduate or science graduate. What’s most important is that you thrive on critical thinking and you have a willingness to move outside disciplinary comfort zones. Studying in the Institute of Transport Studies at Leeds will also give you a unique head start in your career in transport. Not only does our world-leading research shape the course, but our close links with large corporations means you’ll have a chance to interact with potential employers and possibly interview for graduate schemes and other vacancies. We also offer opportunities to build your industry work experience before you graduate with work placements and project work throughout your course. Why study at Leeds: This Masters degree is accredited by the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA)Our Institute for Transport Studies’ globally-renowned research conducted right here on campus feeds directly into the course, shaping your learning with the latest thinking in sustainable transport. Advance your knowledge in a range of key areas including shaping future transport systems, environmental science and sustainability in transport and strategic assessments of transport and environmental policy. Develop a professional and specialist skill set that will enable you to manage projects in industry effectively, run visioning workshops, stakeholder engagement events, strategy meetings, and make persuasive presentations to policy makers. Tailor the course to suit your career aspirations with a broad selection of optional modules that’ll refine your knowledge in the topics that interest you the most. Build industry experience collaborating on a multidisciplinary team project with students from other degree specialisms that focuses on a real-world transport problem posed by Leeds City Council or other relevant organisation. You may also be able to apply for an optional industrial placement. Familiarise yourself with industry-standard models and tools. Experience expert theoretical and practical teaching delivered by a programme team made up of researchers and academics from the Institute for Transport Studies who have extensive expertise across a variety of transport disciplines. Enhance your career prospects and become part of our successful alumni who have secured jobs in some of the most influential national and international companies and institutions in transport including Network Rail, Atkins Realis and the Department of Transport. Many of these organisations are members of the ITS Industrial Advisory Committee who directly inform and advise on course content and priorities. Take advantage of our close working relationships with big organisations in industry such as ARUP, AECOM and Transport for London who actively advertise and recruit directly from the Institute of Transport Studies.